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From: cdimick@javelin.es.com (Clint Dimick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Time to talk about the Colorburst peripheral from M.A.S.T.?
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.014436.2594@javelin.es.com>
Date: 11 Jan 91 01:44:36 GMT
References: <JKH.91Jan10092812@bambam.pcs.com>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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jkh@bambam.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

>It seems that for $495, M.A.S.T. will provide you with a true 24 bit
>color FB + graphics co-processor that hooks to the RBG output port
>(thus why I've been calling it a peripheral and not a "card").
>Resolution is better than the toaster (512 x 768 I believe, again
>don't quote me as I don't have specs in front of me, M.A.S.T. will
>fax them to you if you ask nicely) and graphics are reportedly much
>faster. I don't know what sort of graphics processor they're using as
>the lady I talked to didn't know, but they claim up to 60 FPS animation
>can be attained with it, though the exact constrains for doing
>something like this aren't clear. If even 30fps was possible, I'd be
>happy. A number of other real-time effects (wipes, fades, pans) are
>also supposedly possible and the device is genlock compatible.

>If this is all true, then M.A.S.T has at the most a Toaster-Killer and
>at the least a very very popular product here. Unlike the Toaster, it
>doesn't come with a super-slick 3D modeling package (which may still
>buy the Toaster staunch adherents in the broadcast market), but at these
>prices, that's got to be forthcoming from a 3rd party supplier at some point.

	Although it sounds like a good product, I wouldn't call it a
"Toaster-Killer."  The Toaster's resolution is such that it can be used
for broadcasting purposes.  Any larger resolution would not be needed, as
a television couldn't display the larger boundries.  I know that you
weren't able to get the full specs on M.A.S.T.'s board, but I'd curious to
know whether or not it has dual frame-store buffers, luminance keying,
TRUE broadcast-quality output, multiple inputs, included CG software,
etc... :)
 
	It seems that M.A.S.T. isn't the only company trying to compete
with the Toaster.  Is it Applied Engineering that is releasing the "Video
Blender?"  Anyone have further information on this thing?
 
		- Clint